The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-06-03
CURIOUS ERRORS IN TYPE.
Amusing BIunders Which Often Escape the
PrOOfreader's Eye.

manuscript of newspaper writer's.
Many of the errors revealed in cold
type are extremely comic. The fault
is proportionately divided between the
compositor and the proofreader, al
though the latter prevents many a
ludiCrous blunder from reaching the
public eye. A reporter on Bing-
hamton journal, in his account of a
ball, intended to say that the belle of
the evening 'looked au fait." The
comp ositor thought he knew better,
and set it up so that it read that the
young lady looked "all feet" The
proofreader passed this awful ''bull,
and the item was thus published. The
effect upon the editor and "the belle
of the evening" is concealed from
curious public. In description of
the study of popular authoress a
very important little ''p' was dropped
by the compositor and overlooked by
the proofreader, so that the paper was
made to say that the windows of her
room were ''tastefully decorated with
choice hanging pants. -" A Minneapo-
lis minister in recent Sunday sermon
used the expression, ''All Europe is
coming here" Again the awful COM
positor, who put it into type, "Ali Eu-
rope is crying hell" In report of
dinner given by the Bowdoin alumni
of Portland, Me-, recently, the menu
was published in full by a local paper,
and under the heading of poisson"
(fish) the misplacing of period made
1T appear rather ridiculous. OF course
"boi1ed chicken, halibut, anchovy
sauce" was the piece de resistance,
but the newspaper saw it to print it,
Boiled chicken. Halibut, anchovY
sauce"
"An expression found its way into
our columns yesterday" says Mon
treal paper, (which we much regret.
In our reference to Sir John Macdou-
AIDS singularly mistaken remarks
with regard to Sir Richard Cart
wrighS, the sentence should have read:
Sir John must have been intoxicated
with his brimming honors, etc. The
two words Drumming honors' appear
ed in print as drumming heroes. =
Very recently a critic of leading
newspaper wrote a description of a
piece produced at the Thalia theater
called "Die Fledermaus, and the
compositor put it into type, 'tDie
Fiedexmans. In the same article
reference was made to the opera of
Era Diavolo," and still another strug-
gle by the compositor resulted in
'Fra Travis" A metropolitan re-
porter wrote for bis journal an ac-
count of church ceremony, and q
description was given of the appear
ance of the chancel, during which he
used the words, "the altar was sur
rounded by surpliced fathers. y The
cempositor improved it, as he thought,
by putting it into type, "the altar was
surrounded by scorpions feathers.
An attempt was made by 6 corresponds
ent in Montreal during the excitement
concerning the defalcation and flight
of Emo, who had been seen in q hotel
in that city In somewhat excited
frame OF mind. to say that Emo
walked through the corridors all
night. The compositor went wrong,
the proefreader followed in the same
direction, and the paper was made to
say that 'Eno walked the car-riders
ali night" "A partner of Mr.. Mar
euand'' has been transformed into ga
partner of tho rear guard, = ''iury se-
lected from a panel in New York, =
into ''a jury selected from . panel IN
the dark ''the husks which the
swine did cut, = into s.the husks which
the prince did eat, rancor, acerbity,O
into sranconacerbility. .Red Let
ter Days" into "Red Letter Dogs,
ETC., and the list could be extended
beyond the limits of newspaper space.
1t was somewhat annoying to Bos-
ton people to have their city alluded
to, in recent work on Dickens, as the
"Hut of the Universe, and also to
readers anywhere, and particularly the
author, when he wrote prisoner Of
Chillon,n to have it appear .sPoisoner
of Children II am an Englishman
first and / am Catholic always
were the words written in an account
of an address delivered by gentle-
man in the city of New York on acer-
tain occasion. BY the substitution of
a rather mid profane word. the capi-
tai having been somewhat like a
written d, the compositor formed a
sentence which was not passed by the
proof-reader. and the community was
not proportionately shocked. The
blasting of rocks in the upper part of
the city annoyed the residents Of the
neighborhood good deal, and an APP
peal was made to, the newspapers. A
| reporter addressed, in the course of an
article on the subject, the following
appeal TO the commissioners: ''Can
not something be done to prevent the
careless and reckless blasting in the
vicinity Of Central parkg' The sub
1 joined beautifully complicated SEN
tence was the product OF the COM
positor's brain: 'sCan not something
be done to prevent the camels and
sheep from bleating in the vicinity Of
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